Monthly Archive: November 2014

Summaries meant for texts do not always work nicely for code examples: Even code search frameworks doe not always provide nice summaries. While good summaries are really needed, to enable quick understanding and to support good decisions on what frameworks…Read more

Do programming languages matter? Some people do controlled experiments (like Hanenberg) but this approach uses a large dataset from GitHub and tries to go from there. 729 repositories were mined, where for all commits change logs were retrieved and from…Read more

We know that discussions on pull requests are important, but what we do not know yet is how these discussions impact projects. To study this, Jason has studied pull requests. He randomly selected over 600,000 PRs from 12,483 projects and…Read more

To study novice software teams, Raphael used students, so he starts by explaining how software testing is taught at the Leibniz university. After an introductory software engineering course, in which the needs and benefits of testing were explained, all software…Read more

Recently, trackers like fitbit are gaining popularity, as they log and increase people physical activity. For this paper, the goal is to do a similar thing for software developers: 1) What does it mean for developers to be productive (what…Read more